Arming the People and Defence Plans Reported
The Evening Mail notes a Cabinet Council and a Dunbar circular urging associations to arm the people for general defence. Proposals include stock Protection, wagons and horses for support to the Mutiny Act, bread supply for forces, and measures to starve the enemy’s subsistence. Reports also cover trials at Maidstone, naval communications, and reactions to a French address demanding pay and justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunpas
Jolly
Revolutions and wartime moves ripple through Italian and Batavian realms
Dispatches from Rastadt and Ulm note hesitation over secularization proposals, with Swiss castles resisting and French influence growing. Austrian troop strengthens on Tyrol and Venice fronts while Provence and Milan troop toward Liguria. In Brussels and Ostend, requisitions and embargo responses tighten, as the Batavian Legislature debates seizing estates to indemnify for Prussian and English hostilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampuren Matz
Rastadt
Switzerland
Tyrol
Venice
Provence
Milan
Italy
Campo Formio
Naples
France
Erlang
Ulmn
Brussels
Antwerp
Scheldt
Dunkirk
Calais
Ostend
Nieuport
England
Oth Uic
Irregular Irish papers arrive. no material matter found
This morning matrices from Ireland arrived. The 11th and 12th inscriptions were brought by an irregular conveyance and reached town Saturday but contain nothing material. At 10 this morning the Duke of Northumberland and colleagues met at the Secretary of State's Office to examine accused persons from Manchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Port
Bulstrode
Zaxzzard
Grey
United’ Irish
James Dixon
John Dodds
John Hughes
Andrew Dogherty
Moses Fry
Taylor
William Chetham
Duke of Porrianp
Earl Mansfieep
Vienna
Admiralty
Post-Office
St.Macon
R. Strachan
Havre
Hydra
Fotilla
la Hogue
Arethusa
Eurydice
Portsmouth
Harrington
London
Westminster
Rome
Berthier
Irelanp
Duke of Porkthitanp
Lord Cranchiton
Pitt
Wrexnam
Waite
Secretary of State
Manchester
Proposal to retain half the Constituent Assembly members
Private dispatch from Hague reports Amsterdam’s plan to keep half or two thirds of the current Constituent Assembly as representatives in the upcoming Legislative Body under the new constitution. The proposal, seen as curbing aristocratic and federalist influence, was sent to a commission for likely adoption. A revolutionizing society in Amsterdam aims to rename common terms, with the King becoming a Legislator and the Queen a Director, while urging Republican chess players to abandon other names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
Amsterdam
Met
Bec
Reports on French Demands Against Naples Declared Baseless
A Vienna dispatch dated March 31 states reports of French demands on the Naples court are unfounded. A Naples courier says no breach of peace with France has occurred and Naples remains neutral unless attacked. Other accounts of revolutionary unrest in Naples and Sicily are described as greatly exaggerated and the city as tranquil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Rome
Durnor
Paris
Maidtone
France
King of
Portugal
Maidstone
Promer
Dattas
Chatham
United
Irth
Cooke
Knockhill Heath
Salop
Vienna
Naples
Sicily
King of France Arrives at Mittau with Duke of Angouleme
On March 24 the King of France and the Duke of Angouleme arrived at Mittau and were greeted with full imperial honors. The monarch requested reduced guard numbers, with both courts and palace interiors guarded as for an emperor. Nobility and military and civil authorities led the welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mittau
France
Duke of
Irish disturbances and murders haunt Dublin area
From Athlone a report details disturbances at Portumna Shannon-bridge and Mount Talbot with troops dispatched to quell insurgents. Trials at Maryborough yield guilty verdicts for burglary and robbery linked to Daniel Devoy’s house, while a young clerk Terence Sheel is murdered near Afton's Quay. A parishioners meeting seeks perpetrators. suspicions fall on a patrole lieutenant. Lord Lieutenant orders vigilant investigation and rewards. A broader note reports a conspiracy case in Carlow and ongoing efforts to restore order in Dublin urban districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athlone
Portumna
Shannon-bridge
Mount Talbot
Maryborough
Patrick Delany
Thomas Conrady
Martin Whelan
Laurence Cantwell
Daniel Devoy
Devoy
Asichael Colligan
Terence Sheel
Mesirs
M‘auley
Hughes
Afton’s Quay
Dame-street
Temple-lane
St. Andrew’s
Eustace Street
Exsuaw and
Carteron
Binns
Athe
Charles Fitzroy
Fermanagh
Carlow
Plot to murder Paul Stratford escalates to mass attack
A mob aimed to kill Paul Stratford and his family over property disputes. They dug graves outside his house and moved to strike with several assassins ready. A militia private intervened, saving him after being compelled to join the confederacy, and the conspirators were later captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Stratford
Sir C. Ascott
Arms raids and assaults by loyal volunteers in Cork region
Detachments from Loyal Cork Volunteers and Loyal Cork Legion conducted searches for arms in Glanmire and surrounding areas, returning with guns and a large ammunition bag. Troops later seized more arms on a secret expedition. A Sunday night raid on Rev. Collis’s house at Castle Cooke failed to locate arms, but six armed men looted nearby yeoman houses. Multiple detachments, 2 to 300 strong, lined the road, well mounted and armed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cork Volunteers
Loyal
Cork Legion
Glanmire
Collis
Castle Cooke
Kilworth
Shipping News From Portsmouth And Deal In April Times
The Cotton Planter sailing from London to Quebec is ashore near Portsmouth with cargo landing and hopes to be refloated. Catherine from St Thomas’s and the Calcutta with Indiamen nieuws reach port. Ospray and Coromandel arrive with troops and convoy sailings. Magnanime captures the Eugene after a 23 hour chase near latitude 44 and 12, with Audacieux taken thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Quebec
Portsmouth
Catherine
St. Thomas’s
Ireland
Calcutta
Malabar
Deal
Coromandel
11Th Regiment of Foot
Yarmouths
Overyffel
Irresistible
Argo
Chamelion
Hecla
Judith
Agenoria
Friendship
Lilburn
Cove
Cork
de Courcy
Lisbon
Nantz
Little Will
Liverpool
Africa
Magnanime
St. Alban’s
St. Alban's
Audacieux
Bourdeaux
English State Lottery Draw Fragment
Fragmentary OCR text from a state lottery notice mentioning numbers Fortizza Dire No 36 845 and Nos 96 210 20001 with unclear context. The readable elements suggest draw identifiers and prize references but lack complete details or dates.
Birth and marriage notices from a royal-adjacent listing
Births report the Countess of Spencer welcoming a son at the Admiralty tying to courtly circles. Marriages include Edward Iszac of Brookheath to Waters. James Main to Miss Allen of Creffelly Pembroke. Rev Robert Towerson Cory to Miss Ann Apthorp. G J Robinson to Mrs Skurry. Died notices record Hon. Henry Noel Earl of Gainsborough at Exton and Mrs Holloway of Woolwich, daughter of Sir Wm Green.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Iszac
Brookheath
Hampshire
Apirp
St. Andrew’s Street
Finsbury
G. J. Robinson
Hampstead
Tdus Skurry
Islington
Exton
Rutlandshire
Henry Noel
Earl of Gainsborough
Viscount Cairen
Woolwich
Holloway
Captain Holloway
The
Royal Engineers
Heral
Wm, Green
Financial shorthand notes on per cent rates
A compact fragment listing various per cent rates and bonds with minimal context. Mentions 4 3 per cent, 49 4 per cent, 59 4 per cent, and an annual 5 per cent, with references to confidence and confusion around the figures.
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Evening Mail
Dublin
Ship News
Wind S. W
Lisburn
Quebéc
Countess of Spencer
India
Paruteppy
J. Walter
Printing-House-Square
Beackfriar
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